Website refresh for writer Nicola Cornick

It’s been a busy couple of months in the Pink Fish offices with several new websites and website updates being rolled out this Autumn.

Oxfordshire-based author, Nicola Cornick, is the latest client to have a brand new, hot off the press, website to accompany the launch of her new book – The Winter Garden.

Nicola got in touch with us after seeing the design work we did on the new Lydiard Park website. Wanting something similar to promote her line of dual-time historical novels, we were able to build on this and take further design inspiration from her range of book covers.

Nicola publishes in both the US and the UK simultaneously, and the two audiences have different book covers and titles. An important part of the new site was being able to deliver this content to the appropriate audience without the need for a separate site or US- or UK-specific page URLs.

We achieved this with a clever bit of front-end and back-end programming which allowed us to provide two book covers, two different titles and links to different publishing outlets for each book, the choice of which to show being based on the location of a visitor. This extends to several pages across the site and provides a seamless (and easy to use) interface for visitors and website managers alike.

A responsive design, clean lines and a clever events section showing where Nicola is speaking next completed the site.

We very much enjoyed working with Nicola on this one and wish her every success with the new book launch.

Have a look at her new site and see what you think.